i won't gonna argue with these pirates anymore, i just hope one day they will get caught, get fined a couple of million dollars, and sent to jail, just like the woman i saw on the news last year/ couple of years ago, i would be laughing my *** off. then they will gonna complain why the fines are too high,

You aren't arguing with pirates, you're arguing with people who use a FREE operating system (Linux/Unix) that use FREE programs ( Open Source ) on said operating system.

This anti-pirating thing has got to go... it's a useless (unwinnable) fight (see:Iraq+Afghanistan, Vietnam, War on Drugs, etc). American's have real problems we should be dealing with... you know... huge jail population, crap education, massive debt and those other, apparently small things.

If you are counting me as one of these pirates then you are wrong lol. I was going to get PS but then I didn't feel like paying £900 for something I can get for free (I use Paint.NET, it's not quite the same as PS but it does what I want it to do) I use uTorrent to download game mods (mainly large mods 500MB+) because of it's auto-shut down feature, something internet browsers lack. I use TBP and other torrent sites to get large game mods and other open source software, Live For Speed demo, GTA IV to San Andreas (mod) GTA VC RAGE (open beta mod) are the only one so far other than Paint.NET

I wont outright support piracy, granted that use to be the only way i could get stuff i needed, but i for one would side with groups like TPB because its time that our government stopped catering to the whims of big business and their quest for all the money in the world.

I find it outright sickening that the punishment for downloading/sharing copyrighted work without permission is worse than that of taking the life of another human being. Its totally backwards, and it needs to stop.

Adobe has it right with their CS software. The software is $1000+ if you buy it, but its relatively easy to pirate. Adobe doesn't do anything about it because they know that anyone who makes something of themselves using it will eventually purchase it.

If you are counting me as one of these pirates then you are wrong lol. I was going to get PS but then I didn't feel like paying £900 for something I can get for free (I use Paint.NET, it's not quite the same as PS but it does what I want it to do) I use uTorrent to download game mods (mainly large mods 500MB+) because of it's auto-shut down feature, something internet browsers lack. I use TBP and other torrent sites to get large game mods and other open source software, Live For Speed demo, GTA IV to San Andreas (mod) GTA VC RAGE (open beta mod) are the only one so far other than Paint.NET

If you are counting me as one of these pirates then you are wrong lol. I was going to get PS but then I didn't feel like paying £900 for something I can get for free (I use Paint.NET, it's not quite the same as PS but it does what I want it to do) I use uTorrent to download game mods (mainly large mods 500MB+) because of it's auto-shut down feature, something internet browsers lack. I use TBP and other torrent sites to get large game mods and other open source software, Live For Speed demo, GTA IV to San Andreas (mod) GTA VC RAGE (open beta mod) are the only one so far other than Paint.NET

Gimp > Paint.net <3

With the right plugins Gimp becomes almost a replica of Photoshop. Of course some things are still different, but it's dang close. Who even needs to pirate Photoshop at that point, lol.

If I had the ability to allow people to come into my house and make a full copy of any physical object I own I'd GLADLY allow them to. Comparing stealing physical goods as opposed to pirating software is ridiculous. There's no real limit to how many copies of your digital software you can produce. Overall it's a pretty sure bet that if your $500 software wasn't easily pirated, the people who would have pirated it weren't buying it anyways.

i guarranty you would not gonna say that if you are a programmer or designer or any related stuff. you would not want people just copying your designs or programs for free

You really have to admire these guys that put their necks on the line just to give the finger to the rich and powerful. They really are like the modern adaptation of Robin Hood.....

"[Robin Hood] is the man who became a symbol of the idea that need, not achievement, is the source of rights, that we don‘t have to produce, only to want, that the earned does not belong to us, but the unearned does. He became a justification for every mediocrity who, unable to make his own living, has demanded the power to dispose of the property of his betters, by proclaiming his willingness to devote his life to his inferiors at the price of robbing his superiors. . . . Until men learn that of all human symbols, Robin Hood is the most immoral and the most contemptible, there will be no justice on earth and no way for mankind to survive."
-- Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged, 1957)